Investment Watch Blog

https://twitter.com/oli_hood/status/1068264845173243905 something is not right if the stock market needed this much fake trade news & Fed dovish comments pic.twitter.com/BUan5T7QoT — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) November 29, 2018 nothing to see here pic.twitter.com/U1ErwHzqg1 — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) November 29, 2018 Fund Mgrs See Global Margins To Decline – 47 % of fund managers B of A surveyed see … Read more

https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/1068203987147677697 The latest #Fed minutes show concern about growth in leveraged lending. Read #IMFBlog to find out more about the risks https://t.co/bIKx1nbBqz #debt pic.twitter.com/PymDKab4Pw — IMF (@IMFNews) November 29, 2018 Non-financial corporate debt is at a record high of $75 trillion – up by $16 trillion since the 2013 taper tantrum. pic.twitter.com/9qa1V6L3Vt — IIF (@IIF) … Read more

#China Nov manufacturing PMI slows to 50 (from 50.2) – note that below 50 is contraction from the previous month. We are here: NO GROWTH of manufacturing. Services slow too. Composite to 52.8 from 53.1 – activity definitive slower. So when Xi meets Trump, this'll be on his mind pic.twitter.com/pcpIrXbzuQ — Trinh (@Trinhnomics) November 30, … Read more

via eyeball1234:   Here’s the output for Sofia, using the same assumptions from the chart. Interested to hear your thoughts. https://imgur.com/a/BDW9nbd    

by DESTWOY Now that we’re approaching 31 days before the last trading day of 2018, it’s a good time to examine and/or temporarily pause/modify any automated investments to avoid triggering the wash sale rule. If you aren’t familiar with TLH, it’s (at a high level) the practice of selling losing investments as a way of … Read more

by arghvark I’ve heard stories about people who got a raise only to find out that they were bringing home less money because of “taxes” on the additional income, and I’ve always been suspicious. It just didn’t sound right. So I’ve done calculations to satisfy myself that, in fact, it can’t happen as regards US … Read more

by taxable_efficiency I stayed with the same insurance company for auto since 2007. I added my wife to the policy when we got married in 2013, and then added a policy for our home in 2014. I noticed that the premiums were always trending up, as though there was no benefit for being a loyal … Read more

Bank of American Merrill Lynch says Target and Walmart online sales are outpacing those at Amazon and urges clients to buy the stocks. Analyst Robert Ohmes says Walmart saw its U.S.-owned e-commerce growth accelerate to 43 percent in the third quarter, while Target jumped 49 percent year-over-year. Ohmes adds that the snowballing growth has been … Read more

via thestreet: Stocks quotes in this article: SHLD, DB, C, JPM, BAC, WFC * Large U.S. banks are rapidly gaining share in fixed income trading and retail and corporate lending Deutsche Bank’s shares hit another new low overnight. As I have written in the past, I view (DB) as the next Black Swan in Europe: “Like Sears (SHLD) , Deutsche Bank has … Read more

by Shaun Richards It was not that long ago that many of us “experts” in the interest-rate market felt that negative interest-rates could not be sustained. Back then the past Swiss example could be considered a tax – which remains a way of considering negative interest-rates – and the flicker in Japan was covered by … Read more

by TIMOTHY_TRISMEGISTUS One of my early introductions to conspiracy thought was the Deep Politics of Peter Scott Dale. I was very impressed with the cohesive argument that power is wielded in private and that the public facing heirarchies are nothing more than puppets parroting the will of occulted sources. I then found the Institute for … Read more

I might be wrong, but it looks to me like Hillary and the Deep State sent out their corrupt FBI goons to harass and intimidate a Clinton Foundation & Uranium One whistleblower, and perhaps even destroy evidence! ——– -The FBI raided the home of a whistleblower who was in possession of documents regarding the Clinton … Read more